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PATENTED DEC. 18, 1906. H. c. LYONS & c. R. CLARK. SASH WEIGHT APPLICATION lIL ED AUG. 7, 1906.

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SASH-WEIGHT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 18, 1906.

Application filed August 7, 1906. Serial No. 329,585.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY CLAY LYON and CnARLEs ROMAINE CLARK, citizens of the United States, residing at Alexandria, in the county of Alexandria and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sectional Sasheights; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Cur invention relates to sash-weights, but more particularly to SGOUOIIZII sashweights, and has for its object to provide a.

device of this class whereby two or more weights can be coupled together in order to secure the desired balance for a window.

A further object of our invention is to provide a sectional sash-weight which is particularly cheap to manufacture, easy to couple and uncouple, and which is strong and not easily broken.

Our invention consists in the novel construction of the sash-weight and in the construction employed for coupling the sections together.

A further object of our invention is to provide a sectional sashweight which is an improvement over our copending application, Serial No. 298,395, filed January 29, 1906, and differs therefrom only in the substitution of the transverse lugs or extensions for the transverse pin, as will be presently apparent.

As sash-weights must necessarily be rough castings and are generally subjected to extremely rough handling, there is a possibility of the transverse pin in our copending appli cation before referred to being broken, and as it is only essential that a short transverse lug or extension be provided for successful operation of the weights the transverse pin as described and claimed in our copending application can be dispensed with.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the sashweight. Fig. 2 is a front elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is an elevation showing two weightsections coupled together, the lower weightsection being partly in vertical section; and Fig. 1 is an end elevation thereof.

Like numerals of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several figures.

Referring to the sash-weight shown in the drawings, it will be seen that the same is illustrated flat or square sided, which is the preferable construction, although it is obvious that the body of the weight may be of any convenient form.

Referring to Fig. 1, which shows the weight 1 in perspective, it is seen that the lower portion 2 thereof is contracted laterally, (considering the side 3 as the face of the'weight,) while the same thickness is carried from front to back in said contracted portion 2. While dwelling upon this portion 2 of the weight it is well to draw attention to the upper portion 4 thereof, as shown particularly in Fig. 2. It is seen that a large recess 5 is formed as shown, the width of said recess being slightly greater than the width of the contracted portion 2, so that the contracted portion 2 of a fellow weight-section can enter and be accommodated. by said recess 5. Referring again to the contracted portion 2, it is seen that a deep transverse groove or recess 6 is formed therein, said groove or recess extending from the face of the contracted portion 2 a little more than half-way through the weight, the bottom 7 of said groove or recess 6 being rounded for a purpose which will presently be apparent. This groove 6 in the contracted portion 2 formsa jaw or extension 8 at the lower end of said contracted portion. In rear of said groove 6 the sides 9 and 10 of the contracted portion 2 are slightly recessed, as shown at 11, said recesses communicating with the groove 6, forming a passage 12, while that portion 13 of the sides 9 and 10 of the contracted portion 2 immediately adjacent the upper half of the bottom 7 of the groove 6 is flush with the sides 9 and 10, thereby forming a wall 14, surrounding the upper half of the bottom 7 of the groove 6 for a purpose which will be presently described.

Referring now to the upper portion of the sash-weight, and in this connection particularly Figs. 2 and 4, it is seen that two transverse lugs or extensions 15 project from the walls 16 and 17, and it is also seen that two small lugs or projections 18 are formed on the inner sides of said walls 16 and 17, said lugs or projections 18 being above the lugs or extensions 15 and to one side of the center thereof, as shown in Fig. 4..

Having thus described the several parts of our invention, its operation is as follows: In order to couple or connect two of the sashweight sections together, the lower weight section is turned at right angles to the upper weight-section and the lugs or extensions 15 of the lower weight-section are passed into the groove 6 of the upper weight-section, the lugs 18 on said lower weight-section passing along the passages 12 on the upper weight-section. When the said lugs or extensions 15 reach the bottom of the groove 6, the said lugs 18 are within the depressions 11 on the sides 9 and 10 of the contracted portion 2 of the up per weight-section and are beyond the walls immediately surrounding the upper half of the bottom of thegroove 6. WVhen in this position, the lower weight-section is allowed to swing down vertically into position, the lugs or extensions of the lower section acting as a pivot. This movement of the lower weight-section carries the lugs 18 thereon up over the walls 14 on the contracted portion 2 ,of the upper weight-section, as shown in Fig.

3, causing them to strike the walls 19 on the contracted portion 2 of the upper weight-section, which walls act as stops and effectually lock the two weight-sections together in such manner that while the two weight-sections are in a vertical. position the lower section cannot be uncoupled or disconnected. hen it is desired to couple a series of the weightsections together, each succeeding section is coupled to its preceding section in the man ner as just described, and from the description and drawings it is apparent that the coupled sections do not have to be given the usual quarter-turn in order to bring the lowest section into position to receive an addi tional section.

If a portion of the jaw or extension at the lower end of the weight-section should be broken off, the section would be unharmed, as it is only necessary that suflicient of this extension remain in order to afford a bearing for the lugs or extensions 15 when the same is at the bottom or end of the slot 6. As a matter of fact, should the entire jaw or extension 8 be by some manner broken off the lugs 18 would engage the curved walls 14 at the bottom or end of the slot 6 and hold the lower weight-section firmly locked in position. It is furthermore only essential to the practical operation of these weight-sections that one of the lugs 18 be intact, as should one of said lugs be broken off or not pour properly the remaining lug would perform its function and look its section to another section firmly and securely.

As one of the primary objects of our invention is to provide a sectional sash-weight which is strong and durable and practically non-breakable, it appears that the only effectual way of incapacitating one of the sec tions would be to break the same short off, which would be extremely difficult owing to the thickness of the metal in cross-section.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. As an article of manufacture, a sectional sash-weight having a recess at one end thereof extending longitudinally some distance into the body of the weight, a lug within said recess, a lug within said recess and outside of said first-mentioned lug, a contracted portion on said weight, a transverse groove in said contracted portion a recess in one of the sides of said contracted portion and a passage leading from said recess to said transverse groove.

2. As an article of manufacture, a sectional sash-weight having a recess at one end thereof extending some distance into the body of the weight, a lug within said recess transverse thereof, a lug within said recess in proximityto saidfirst-mentioned lug, a contracted portion on said. weight, a groove having its bottom lying in the same direction as the said first-mentioned lug within the said recess, and a passage associated with said groove.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY CLAY LYONS. CHARLES ROMAINE CLARK.

Witnesses:

JOHN D. NORMOYLE, R. W. FRENCH. 

